Australian Soldier Park

Park in Beersheba, Israel

The Australian Light Horse Regiment monument The park commemorates the Australian soldiers who took over Beersheba from the Turks as part of General Allenby's conquest of the Levant in World War I.

The Australian Soldier Park, in Beersheba, Israel is dedicated to the memory of the Australian Light Horse regiments,[1] that captured the town from the Ottoman Empire during World War I.

The park was established in 2008 on a large area, and is maintained by a team of its own employees. On its eastern corner there is a memorial statue of a mounted Australian lighthorseman as well as documentary materiel on aluminum boards, written in three languages. The park also includes an area for picnics, gardens, artificial waterfalls, a maze, and a large playground under a circuses-tent-like shade that protects visitors from the desert sunlight.

Most of the playground facilities are fully accessible for children who use wheelchairs. It includes slides one can climb to via a wheelchair ramp, a carousel with two regular benches and two secured places for wheelchairs, hammock and swings one can easily use without sitting straightly and without holding tight, and so on. Disabled parking bays are located in the middle of the park, much closer to the facilities than the rest of the parking spaces.

The three million dollars of funding for the park was contributed by an Australian fund,[2] and by the Fund for Beersheba Development.[3][4]

## Gallery

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* The accessible side array under the shade

* Möbius strip-like device in the park

* The playground

* Approach to the maze

## See also

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* Military of Australia portal

* List of Australian military memorials

## References

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1. ^ The park at Mapa
2. ^ The park at Tayarut Index Archived July 21, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
3. ^ The park at Pratt Foundation
4. ^ Beersheba memorial honours Light Horsemen

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Australian war memorials

Major national monuments
(capital cities)|

* Anzac Memorial (Sydney)
* Australian Army Memorial (Canberra)
* Australian Merchant Navy Memorial (Canberra)
* Australian Peacekeeping Memorial (Canberra)
* Australian Service Nurses National Memorial (Canberra)
* Australian War Memorial (Canberra)
* The Cenotaph (Hobart)
* Kings Park War Memorial (Perth)
* National War Memorial (Adelaide)
* Remembrance Driveway (Sydney to Canberra)
* Royal Australian Navy Memorial (Canberra)
* Shrine of Remembrance (Brisbane)
* Shrine of Remembrance (Melbourne)
* Vietnam Forces National Memorial (Canberra)

On foreign soil|

* Australian War Memorial (London, England)
* Australian Soldier Park (Beersheba, Israel)
* Lae War Cemetery (Lae, Papua New Guinea)
* Lone Pine Memorial (Gallipoli, Turkey)
* V.C. Corner Australian Cemetery and Memorial (Fromelles, France)

Regional monuments|

* ACT Memorial (Canberra)
* Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial (Ballarat)
* Monument Hill (Fremantle)
* Victory Memorial Gardens (Wagga Wagga)

Boer War memorials|

* South African War Memorial (Adelaide)
* South African War Memorial (Brisbane)
* Boer War Memorial (Canberra)

World War I memorials|

* Arch of Victory (Ballarat)
* Avenues of Honour
* The Cenotaph (Sydney)
* Johnstone Park Memorial (Geelong)
* Light Horse Interchange (Sydney)
* Mount Macedon Memorial Cross

World War II memorials|

* Australian–American Memorial (Canberra)
* Avenues of Honour
* Albany
* Armadale
* Bacchus Marsh
* Ballarat
* Booroopki
* Buchan South
* Cowra
* Hobart
* Lakes Entrance
* Lysterfield
* Macedon
* O'Connell
* Woodend North
* Military Museum and Bombing Memorial (Darwin)
* El Alamein Fountain (Sydney)
* Hellenic Memorial (Canberra)
* Rats of Tobruk Memorial (Canberra)

Korean War memorials|

* Korean War Memorial (Canberra)

Campaigns|

* Regimental Square (Sydney)

Branch|

* Rockingham Naval Memorial Park (RAN)

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